Why Do Cables Matter?

Yes, +1 steakster

The signal is there all the time just waiting to be freed from the confines of a poorly made cable. The old saw about cables good enough to record with are all you need is a red herring.

My speaker and IC cables wouldn't last a week in a recording studio as they're fragile, comparatively speaking, not made for constant pulling, yanking and inserting. All that metal in robustly made terminations degrade the sound. Same for the overkill built sleeving and (if they need to use it) shielding. 

A cable that can get out of the way of the music will do a better job revealing the music that's always been there, dying to get out.

All the best,
Nonoise

So why doesn't  the worlds most complicated most expensive machine (the ASML Semiconductor chip makers) use fancy cables. These machines need to do the most exact measurements in the world. Why don’t audio test equipment like Audio Precision testers come with a boutique AC power cable? If your argument @nonoise is:
"The signal is there all the time just waiting to be freed from the confines of a poorly made cable."

Then why don’t these machines need their information freed? You arrogantly put me down and won’t deal with anything I’ve said. You call me a name dropper I simply used Al Schmitt because he is a known commodity and spoke of the principle we are talking about, maybe you would listen to what he said. Try to be nice.

I think you are the arrogant one.

Have no time or interest in anything you post.

ASR is a much better site for you.

@donavabdear 

Thank you for answering my question - I appreciate it.

Even the best recordings are a long way from the sound of live music, so anything we can do to get back what;s on the recording itself helps.

But we have a long way to go!